Spectacles and eyeglasses



(No Model.)

0. F. BEBES.

SPECTACLES AND BYEGLASSBS. No. 271,771'. Patented Feb.6, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT @Errea CHARLES E. nEEEs, 0E NEw-AitmNEw JERSEY.

SPECTACLES AND EYEGLASSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,771, datedFebruaryr, 1883.

Application led May 16, 1832. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, CHARLES F. BEERs, ofNewark, in the county of Esse-X and State of New Jersey, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Spectacles and Eyeglasses, of which thefollowing is a specitication.

My invention relates to an improvement in t'ramel'ess eyeglasses andspectacles; and itconi. 'sists in the devlces Ifor uniting the spring orlarged view ot' the clip. Fig. 6 is a detailed view ofthe nose-piece ofspectacles. Fig. 7` is a further detailed View. Fig. 8 showsamodification having a rib on the spring. Fig. 9 is a longitudinalsection through Fig. 8 on a line of wat'. Fig. 10 gives detailed viewsof parts as seen in Fig. 8. Fig. 11 is an end view of part shown in Fig.6. Fig. 12 is a detailed view of the handle. Fig. 13 shows theimpgrovement in jointing the springs for eyeglasses.

In .mycoustruction I unite the nose-piece in spectacles and the springin eyeglasses, as well as the handle, Ste., by means of a clip, A,having two prongs, VB4 G, fitted to slip onto the end of a glass and beheld in position by the shoulder-screw'lD,.passing through a hole in theglass E. This hole may be square, round, three-cornered, or oval.

To provide for glasses of different thickness,-

I make the prong C with a. Bange, F, on the inside, which isscrewlthreaded to receive the screw D. The prong B is countersunk toreceive the head of the screw.

The clip, made of any suitable elastic metal, will widen and contract tothe thickness of the glass to be used, and the screw working in theange-uut F will hold the two parts of the clip together closely to anythickness of glass, and the bearing in the nut F being so long, the endof the screw may stop short ot' the outside ot' the prong, as seen inFigs. 4L

l and 5. However, this ngt F may be tapped clear through, if desired, asseen at G in Fig. 4.

Inthe outer end of the clip is a screw, H, in the screw-threaded shank Kof the clip, and this screw has a point fitted to enter a shaped recess,A, in the edge and hold theV clip from' moving either way along the edgeof the glass. This is found to be sufficient alone for the locking-pieceL; but in uniting the nose-piece M of spectacles and the spring N of'eyeglasses I prepare the end of the glass with a square-cut,semicireular, or -shaped groove, g, lying parallel with the faces of theglass; and the end O of the nose-piece for spectacles and the portion Pof the spring N for eyeglasses are prepared with a corresponding shapedsection, C, to tit into said groove in the glass.v This part of thespring or nosepiece is then put through the clip under the end of thescrew El, and the screw is turned in, the point entering a recess in thespring, &c., like the recess a in the glass. holds the nose-pieceor'spring rmly tc the glass; or, in place 0i' the spring being made toIit in the groove in the glass, a. strip, Q,-

(see Figs. Sand 10,) may be secured to the spring having the desiredshape to iit in the groove gin the glass. The handle S is also unitedthesameasthespring,&c. (SeeFig.3.) v

Instead oi' the glasses in eyeglasses being closed or shutup'by bendingup the spring and sliding the glasses one on the face of the other, in`the usual way, I make my spring N in two pieces, as seen in Fig. 13, andjoint them together on the pin R, and then fold the glasses upon eachother, doubling them up by moving the parts ou the pin lit, and in thisway l avoid the strain and great liability to break in the formermethod.

Ou the inner side, near each end 0i' the spring held by the pin lt., isa small deut, c, h'tted to receive the projection li on the oppositepiecewhich, when the glasses are open or shut up, will lock the springsin position. This becomes a valuable improvement on the method ot'folding up the glassesfor a case.

I claim- 1. In spectacles and eyeglasses, the clip A, having the angenutF, in combination with This screw the screw D, substantially as and forthe purl P, fitted to enter the groove g in thecdgcof poso specified.`the glass, substantially as and for the purpose 1o 2. The combination ofthe clip A, screw D, named. glass E and screw H substantially as and forl 5 the puruose set; forth. CHARLES F' BEERS 3. 4In combination with theclip A, screw D, Witnesses:

glass E, andscrew H, the nose-piece M or HORACE HARRIS,

' spring N, said parts having the sectionsO and l R. S. STEADMAN.

